Architect Job Trends in the North of England

Architect
England > North of England

The median Architect salary in the North of England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 56 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 -19 +46
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 633 282 820
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.84% 4.40% 5.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.20% 4.80% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 453 227 624
10th Percentile £64,439 £53,750 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £78,273
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -10.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £100,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 15,086 5,871 15,320
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 91.61% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,788 3,791 12,302
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.02%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Architect job vacancy trend in the North of England

Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in the North of England

Architect
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +18 346 £90,000 +34.33% 100
Yorkshire +7 191 £80,000 - 70
North East +7 96 £80,000 +23.08% 28
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 10 April 2026, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 114 (18.01%) Azure
2 97 (15.32%) AWS
3 93 (14.69%) Enterprise Architecture
4 72 (11.37%) Roadmaps
5 62 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 57 (9.00%) Data Modelling
7 56 (8.85%) TOGAF
8 54 (8.53%) Mentoring
8 54 (8.53%) Microsoft
9 50 (7.90%) Data Architecture
9 50 (7.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 47 (7.42%) Degree
11 45 (7.11%) Agile
12 44 (6.95%) Analytics
13 42 (6.64%) Business Strategy
13 42 (6.64%) Migration
13 42 (6.64%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (6.64%) Strategic Thinking
14 41 (6.48%) AI
14 41 (6.48%) IT Strategy
15 40 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
16 39 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (6.16%) GCP
16 39 (6.16%) Microservices
16 39 (6.16%) Security Cleared
17 38 (6.00%) Translating Business Requirements
18 36 (5.69%) Architectural Patterns
19 35 (5.53%) Serverless
20 34 (5.37%) Architectural Design
20 34 (5.37%) Data Governance

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (2.37%) Confluence
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (0.47%) SAS
3 2 (0.32%) JBoss
3 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.32%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.16%) Apache
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.16%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.32%) Revit
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.95%) SAP MM
3 5 (0.79%) SAP CAR
3 5 (0.79%) SAP Retail
4 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.32%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 114 (18.01%) Azure
2 97 (15.32%) AWS
3 39 (6.16%) GCP
4 35 (5.53%) Serverless
5 26 (4.11%) SaaS
6 22 (3.48%) Power Platform
7 20 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (2.05%) IaaS
8 13 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (2.05%) Snowflake
9 12 (1.90%) PaaS
10 6 (0.95%) GitHub
11 4 (0.63%) iPaaS
12 3 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.47%) Azure Stack
12 3 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (0.32%) Amazon Bedrock
13 2 (0.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.11%) Network Security
2 6 (0.95%) Broadband
3 5 (0.79%) Internet
4 3 (0.47%) SAN
4 3 (0.47%) VPN
5 2 (0.32%) SSL
6 1 (0.16%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.16%) Firewall
6 1 (0.16%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.42%) Metadata
2 13 (2.05%) Power BI
3 11 (1.74%) Tableau
4 9 (1.42%) DynamoDB
4 9 (1.42%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 5 (0.79%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.63%) DB2
8 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.47%) TIBCO EBX
9 2 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.32%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.16%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.16%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.16%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (2.37%) JIRA
2 4 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (0.47%) Snyk
4 1 (0.16%) GitLab
4 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (13.27%) Finance
2 70 (11.06%) Social Skills
3 58 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 38 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (2.69%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.37%) Retail
9 14 (2.21%) Legal
10 12 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.58%) Games
12 9 (1.42%) Banking
13 8 (1.26%) Marketing
14 6 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.63%) Back Office
16 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.47%) Law
16 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.32%) Electronics
17 2 (0.32%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.21%) .NET
2 13 (2.05%) Middleware
3 6 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (0.63%) PySpark
4 4 (0.63%) REST
4 4 (0.63%) XML
5 3 (0.47%) Kafka
5 3 (0.47%) Node.js
5 3 (0.47%) SOAP
6 2 (0.32%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (0.32%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.32%) Backbone.js
6 2 (0.32%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.32%) React
6 2 (0.32%) Spring
6 2 (0.32%) Struts
6 2 (0.32%) Web Services
6 2 (0.32%) XBRL
7 1 (0.16%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.16%) Operational Technology
4 18 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 11 (1.74%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.11%) IoT
10 7 (1.11%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.63%) Taxonomies
13 3 (0.47%) AI Agents
14 2 (0.32%) DataPower
14 2 (0.32%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.32%) Android
2 1 (0.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (14.69%) Enterprise Architecture
2 72 (11.37%) Roadmaps
3 62 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 57 (9.00%) Data Modelling
5 56 (8.85%) TOGAF
6 54 (8.53%) Mentoring
7 50 (7.90%) Data Architecture
7 50 (7.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 45 (7.11%) Agile
9 44 (6.95%) Analytics
10 42 (6.64%) Business Strategy
10 42 (6.64%) Migration
10 42 (6.64%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (6.64%) Strategic Thinking
11 41 (6.48%) AI
11 41 (6.48%) IT Strategy
12 40 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
13 39 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (6.16%) Microservices
14 38 (6.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 34 (5.37%) Python
2 24 (3.79%) Java
3 23 (3.63%) SQL
4 21 (3.32%) C#
5 19 (3.00%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.79%) Bicep
7 5 (0.79%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.47%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.16%) SOQL
10 1 (0.16%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 47 (7.42%) Degree
2 39 (6.16%) Security Cleared
3 27 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.11%) TOGAF Certification
5 22 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.16%) AWS Certification
8 19 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.42%) PMP
11 7 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.11%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.95%) CISSP
13 5 (0.79%) CCNP
13 5 (0.79%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.32%) RIBA
14 2 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.58%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.11%) GDPR
5 5 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.79%) NIST
6 4 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.47%) GRC
7 3 (0.47%) NCSC
8 1 (0.16%) HL7
8 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) Firmware
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (2.05%) MOM
2 6 (0.95%) Terraform
3 5 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.16%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 54 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.06%) SAP
3 25 (3.95%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.05%) Oracle
5 12 (1.90%) Siemens
6 11 (1.74%) Palantir
7 9 (1.42%) Anaplan
7 9 (1.42%) Genesys
7 9 (1.42%) Google
7 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.42%) Verint
8 7 (1.11%) Databricks
9 5 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (0.63%) Informatica
10 4 (0.63%) VMware
11 3 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.47%) Foundry
11 3 (0.47%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.47%) Sparx
11 3 (0.47%) TIBCO